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Refusals of Care & Discrimination

A health care provider’s personal beliefs should never dictate health care – a patient’s health must always come first.

Discrimination in Health Care

For decades, insurance companies discriminated against women. They charged women more or denied coverage altogether. They didn’t cover women’s health services. The health care law stopped this discrimination. We must ensure the law’s promise is fulfilled.

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Pharmacy Refusals 101

So-Called Conscience Protection Act Puts “Religious Beliefs” Above Patient Care

Trump Administration Allows Employers to Take Birth Control Coverage Away from Women

Put Patients First: Eliminate the Weldon Amendment

Discrimination Against Health Care Professionals Who Provide or Support Abortion

2017 Webinar Series: “If You Care About…, You Should Care About Reproductive Justice”

US House Members Lied About Research to Justify Allowing Hospitals to Refuse to Help Patients

The Labor HHS Funding Bill Could Open the Door Wider to Religious Beliefs Dictating Patient Access to Care

Members of Congress Have Made Their Spending Priorities Clear, And it’s Not Good.

The Trump Budget

The President’s Budget Clearly Places Religious and Personal Beliefs Above Patient Health

Webinar: Putting Patients First: New Opinion Research and Messaging on When Religious Beliefs Override Patient Care

The Patient Should Come First: Refusals to Provide Reproductive Health Care

We Should Be More Like Sweden, Where Patient Health Care May Actually Come First

Victory in Sex Discrimination Complaints Brought by NWLC: After Investigation by HHS, Employers Change Policies

The Russell Amendment Allows Unprecedented Discrimination

Discrimination Has a Name – the Russell Amendment

Ensuring Women’s Access to Birth Control at Pharmacies isn’t Blocked by Objecting Pharmacists

Zubik v. Burwell: Non-Profit Objecting Employers Want to Make It More Difficult, If Not Impossible, for Women to Access Critical Birth Control Coverage

The Hobby Lobby “Minefield”: The Harm, Misuse, and Expansion of the Supreme Court Decision

NWLC Amicus Briefs Supporting the Birth Control Coverage Benefit

NWLC Files Amicus Brief in Wheaton College v. Burwell

NWLC Files Supreme Court Amicus Brief Supporting the Birth Control Coverage Benefit

Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Complaint January 2011